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Redmond Council interviews Nancy Mburu for poet laureate; staff to place approval on September consent agenda
Summary
The Redmond City Council interviewed Nancy Mburu on Sept. 9 for the city’s poet laureate position. Staff said the selection panel advanced Mburu and requested the council place final approval on the September consent agenda; no formal appointment was made at the meeting.
The Redmond City Council interviewed Nancy Mburu on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, during a virtual special meeting to consider her as the city’s ninth poet laureate, and Hannah Coleman, the city’s cultural arts coordinator, said the selection panel advanced Mburu and requested the council place final approval on the September consent agenda.
The poet laureate program, Coleman said, “was established in 2008 by Ordinance 2444.” Coleman told the council a three-member selection panel — including a former state poet laureate, the current Redmond poet laureate and a member of the Redmond arts and culture commission — interviewed three finalists and advanced one candidate, Nancy Mburu, for the council’s interview and…
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